Dear Andre, Sorry to miss you at Pycon. It was nice to get to know Johannes.
I am excited by Jeff's plan to crunchify his book. As we get a larger body of tutorials and problems, we are getting to the time when it would be good to be able to choose the next page to go to based on whether a student succeeded or failed at an exercise tested by doctest. Andy On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Andre Roberge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The recent increase in activity in this group is nice - especially as > it seems that Python is being used in an increasing number of > educational institutions. > > I have enjoyed reading the (too few) reports about Pycon 2008. > Unfortunately, I have been unable to attend. From the reports I read > elsewhere, I gather that Johannes Woolard managed to interest a few > more people in Crunchy; he was only one of two people (the other being > Guido van Rossum) interviewed by Dr. Dobb's Journal > ( > http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Johannes-Woolard-On-Crunchy.html&Itemid=29 > ). > So, for those that have seen his talk, or talked to him, I was > wondering if you have any suggestions to make for improvement to > Crunchy during the upcoming Google Summer of Code. > > I have already been contacted by a few students already interested in > doing a Crunchy-related project. Some project ideas can be found at: > http://code.google.com/p/crunchy/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas > > Among them, is the following (based on an old suggestion by Jeff Elkner): > === > Create a collection of doctest-based problems for simple (and not so > simple) Python exercises for list, strings, dicts, math functions, > etc. The beginning of a collection can be found at > http://code.google.com/p/doctests/source/browse; this is the list > referred to at > http://wiki.python.org/moin/ProblemSets/99_Prolog_Problems_Solutions > for problems 1 to 6. > === > > There are only a few days left before students start uploading their > project ideas. So now is the time to make suggestions so that you can > use Crunchy effectively next September ;-) > > André > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig > -- Andrew N. Harrington Director of Academic Programs Computer Science Department Loyola University Chicago 512B Lewis Towers (office) Snail mail to Lewis Towers 416 820 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60611 http://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh Phone: 312-915-7982 Fax: 312-915-7998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] for graduate administration [EMAIL PROTECTED] for undergrad administration [EMAIL PROTECTED] as professor
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